Flying Lotus has scored animated Blade Runner short

While other franchises have taken to comic books or novelizations to fill in the holes, Blade Runner will release an anime, helmed by the director of Cowboy Bebop.

"Director Shinichiro Watanabe (Cowboy Bebop, Samurai Champloo) is directing an animated short tie-in to the Blade Runner 2049 film, which opens in Japan on October 27".

Written by Hampton Fancher and Michael Green and directed by Denis Villeneuve (Arrival), Blade Runner 2049 stars Ryan Gosling, Harrison Ford, Ana de Armas, Robin Wright, Jared Leto, Barkhad Abdi, Lennie James, Mackenzie Davis and Sylvia Hoeks. We see a shadowy figure emerging from smoke and fire, and a hooded girl who is likely the protagonist of the short.

Thirty years after the events of the first film, a new blade runner, LAPD Officer K (Ryan Gosling), unearths a long-buried secret that has the potential to plunge what's left of society into chaos. Watanabe's goal in making the short movie is to pay a respectful homage to Blade Runner, while not creating an "imitation".

We certainly have some mixed feelings around here about the upcoming Blade Runner sequel, Blade Runner 2049. Sony Pictures Japan has uploaded a sneak peek of the short. Well now, Japanese Blade Runner fans have one more thing to add to the "pro" column for this film. Decorations that are direct echoes of the original Ridley Scott: slum post-apocalyptic, cool colors overlapping one another creating a rainbow city, deshumanisation of the human species, no doubt Denis Villeneuve has done his homework.

"As an anime professional, the film that's had the greatest influence on me has to be Blade Runner. The new Blade Runner is an extension of the first movie a few decades later".

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